THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 16, 1983 23
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U.S. Jews: 300 Years of History
the Jewish immigrant to
these shores as a peddler in
a black coat with large, sad
eyes fixed on the promise of
the Statue of Liberty. When
the words of the Jewish poet
Emma Lazarus were carved
into the pedestal in 1886 —
t. . . give me your tired, your
poor, your huddled masses
yearning to be free . . . " —
immigration was at its
height.
But the first Jewish
migrants disembarked
more than 200 years earli-
er, not at Ellis Island but in
New Amsterdam. Jews, too,
were early settlers, envoys
to the Crown, merchants
with the China Trade and,
later on, newspaper pub-
lishers in the rural South,
chaplains in the Civil War.
. These and other little
known facts — not to men-
tion the handwritten poem
by Emma Lazarus — await
By BERNARD WAX
Director, American Jewish
Historical Society
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
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the visitor to the American
Jewish Historical Society
housed high on a hill on the
campus of Brandeis Univer-
sity. The society's vast hold-
ings of manuscripts and
memorabilia, artifacts, por-
traits and photographs
bring to life more than three
centuries of Jewish experi-
ence in the New World.
In 1968, after decades
in rented or donated
quarters in Philadelphia
and New York City— and
spurred by a
multimillion-dollar be-
quest specifying a per-
manent home — the
society chose the campus
of Brandeis University
and gained, for the first
time, the space to build a
library and museum.
Among its collections are
the personal papers of nota-
ble American Jews such as
Revolutionary War finan-
cier Haym Salomon and
Rabbi Setphen Wise. Sur-
prising views of upper class
colonial Jewry are visible in
a rare collection of 18th
Century portraits of the
Frank _ s family of New York
City. Old photographs re-
flect the daily life of ordi-
nary Jews in frontier towns.
and agricultural colonies,
once a familiar sight all
over the country.
Since its founding in
1892, the society has sought
to preserve a sense of
Jewish identity and con-
tinuity, and in the process,
enlist the understanding
and appreciation of the
larger community through
publications, conferences
and exhibits. In keeping
with its mandate, it pro-
vided an administrative
umbrella to the now-
independent National Cen-
ter for Jewish Film, also on
the Brandeis campus.
In addition to maintain-
ing a national archive — a
library of 70,000 volumes,
over six million pages of
manuscripts, and
thousands of periodicals
and newspapers — the
society publishes its own
distinguished quarterly,
American Jewish History.
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-conducts joint meetings
with groups such as the
American Historical
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regional conferences on
Jewish history (lately, in
Berkeley, Calif., in
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and New Orleans).
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state of Israel.
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anniversary, "On Common
Ground: The Boston Jewish
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